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"Deep Wisdom; strong, clear, practical advice--wonderful common sense Zen." -- Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
"Joko Beck speaks from the timeless and the perennial, so her metaphors of ordinary things and everyday incidents illumine my mundane life. Nothing Special is Zen alive and how to live it." -- Robert Aitken, author of Taking the Path of Zen
"Joko Beck speaks from the timeless and the perennial, so her metaphors of ordinary things and everyday incidents illumine my mundane life. Nothing Special is Zen alive and how to live it." -- Robert Aitken, author of Taking the Path of Zen
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A Zen Center weekend in a book! The delightfully contemporary teacher and bestselling author of Everyday Zen shows how to make living itself a spiritual practice and how to discover that the extraordinary is really "nothing special."
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We are rather like whirlpools in the river of life. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Bk on American Zen,
By Syd McCall (West Melbourne, FL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nothing Special (Paperback)
Joko Beck really has created a unique brand of American Zen, which is one of the reasons I liked this one so much - not a lot of Japanese mumbo jumbo. Most the Zen Books out there right now are not that simple to understand and have terminology you have to be a Buddhist scholar to interpret. Also, check out Open Mind Zen - it's another American Zen style book that is intelligible to the average reader.
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This review is from: Nothing Special (Paperback)
Zen practice can take a long time to penetrate an individual; Charlotte Joko Beck tells this story to demonstrate just that point, practice takes commitment and humility. Being a teacher at the Zen Center of San Diego and also heir to the late Taizan Maezumi Roshi, Beck has placed herself in the realm of a select few who have a clear-cut voice in concern to Zen and it's practice. This book is like a companion to Everyday Zen, by the same author.In this particular work Beck answers several questions from students with coolness and effortlessness. There are chapters in here on great effort, sacrifice, division and correlation, impermanence, attentiveness, autonomy, and of course "nothing special." For if you make something special, you have something not special; meaning you have created the world of all opposites. Don't worry about special or not special, as Zen master Seung Sahn would say, "Only go straight." The primary focus present here is encouraging people in their spiritual growing, something we all urgently need in our all too often hectic lives. "The whole lot" in our lives becomes part of the practice of awakening to things as they are. Charlotte Joko Beck brings the Zen way alive in this brilliant volume. Enjoy it!
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Transforming and Life-Changing,
By A Customer
This review is from: Nothing Special (Paperback)
For those wanting a concise explanation of living Zen, Charlotte Joko Beck captures the essence of life in this book. It is masterfully written with simple prose for anyone just entering the world of Buddhism. Her answers are straightforward to all of life's questions - for those of us who care to ask - and reach out to the depths of the human soul as no one ever has. It literally changed my life overnight - enough that I felt compelled to make a recommendation, modest as it is.
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